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Dear The Real Singapore,
The train delay lasted for more than an hour including waiting time in stations and inside the train. I was able to reach school at 8.15 if the train is going smoothly. But i reached school at around 9.30. I have exams at 8.30. Due to train fault from kranji north south line. Students from republic polytechnic were greatly affected by the train fault. Resulting in in many students unable to take their exam and grades was greatly affected even though the smrt late slip was given to school. Students were advised to take another exam that is for students with medical reasons. (Ut4) which is alot harder.
Please post this to let MOE , SMRT and RP to know about this and students will appreciate it very much if they could give some leeway.
I would usually be arriving to school 30 mins before the exam which is more than enough and I ended up 1 hour late for my exam. I do not think it is my fault since I wasn't told by my school to turn up 2-3 hours before my exam and to expect a MRT breakdown. Should MRT breakdown be a factor that us students need to take into consideration now for our exams?
I went to school for nothing today and I have to waste money taking a train back home again. I live in a 3 room flat with 3 of my sisters and all these transport money is very important to me especially for from a low-income family like myself.
I am very disappointed with the performance of our MRT train station as I have encountered train delay and breakdown numerous times again. I might be interested in joining politics after reading your website since the government is not doing anything about the welfare of Singaporeans and it is only getting from bad to worse.
Please share my post with your readers. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Angry RP student
Editor's Note: We have forwarded this letter to Republic Poly and hopefully they will look into this and make those students late for the exams sit a special paper that is not harder than the medical exempted paper.
SMRT posted on their Facebook page earlier that the delay was at least 15 mins. Most of our readers also complained that the delay lasted for almost 1 hour and they ended up turning up for school and work an hour late.
